Oct 23, 2009 The new QMC@home server is up! Sep 24, 2009 Because of building work our server will be offline for 15-30 minutes this afternoon and tomorrow morning. Jul 9, 2009 Because of maintenance work at the institute's power grid the server will not be available for a few hours today and/or tomorrow. Mar 3, 2009 Happy third birthday, QMC@HOME! A detailed news update and project overview can soon be found here. Jan 24, 2009 After a RAID disaster on Friday morning we had to go offline for a day. More information can be found here. Dec 23, 2008 Merry Christmas and a happy New Year - and many thanks to all our supporters in 2008! Sep 15, 2008 Our server will be offline for a few hours on the next wednesday morning, to allow for the completion of a kernel security update. Aug 26, 2008 The Foundation for Computational Learning & Science, a newly formed United States non-profit organization is conducting a no-cost survey of BOINC users. Jul 11, 2008 You can find a short summary of the state of affairs here. Apr 26, 2008 This night our server was offline because of a hardware failure. Mar 28, 2008 Today a new application is launched as alpha test. With this application our new crew member Robert will extend the capabilities of QMC@HOME beyond QMC. See this news posting for more details. Mar 13, 2008 Our server will be offline again today to fix some remaining minor issues. Feb 13, 2008 Our server will be offline again for a few hours tomorrow morning to complete the hardware upgrade. Feb 6, 2008 Our server will be offline for a few hours this afternoon to allow for a hardware upgrade. Jan 22, 2008 'Toward the Exact Solution of the Electronic Schrödinger Equation for Noncovalent Molecular Interactions: Worldwide Distributed Quantum Monte Carlo Calculations' - Our DNA base pair and JSCH2005-S22 benchmark set results, published in the Journal of Physical Chemistry A (JPCA) issued by the American Chemical Society (ACS), can be found here. Jan 21, 2008 Better late than never: Happy new year and thank you very much for all the computing time donated in 2007! You can find a short summary of the state of affairs here. Nov 23, 2007 Users of newer linux systems that experience ongoing errors should look here for a possible solution to their problems. Nov 8, 2007 Hurry up to get a QMC@HOME mug: Coris QMC@HOME Mug! (Other designs will follow ...) Nov 8, 2007 A new page, that shows the progress of the workunit batches on the server: Workunit status Nov 8, 2007 At the moment our workunits are quite large, as we have run out of smaller ones due to a race, read more about it here ... October, 2007 A new project with new workunits has started in October: Stacking effects. Sep 20, 2007 From September 25th to October 6th only only limited support is available. Aug 8, 2007 On Saturday (08/11) morning the QMC@HOME server will not be available for a few hours, due to maintenance work on the power supply. Jul 4, 2007 Information about a new workunit series is now available. June 2007 The QMC@HOME birthday competitionpolls are closed! Take a look at the lucky winners! May 30, 2007 The QMC@HOME birthday competitionpolls will be closed on monday (June 4th)! May 4, 2007 Polls are open for the QMC@HOME birthday competitions! Apr 4, 2007 Deadline for all QMC@HOME birthday competitions: May 3! Mar 16, 2007 A BOINC news blog (in german language) also about QMC@HOME can be found here. Mar 16, 2007 Because of an incorrect input file, all five_22l_folding and five2_22l_folding workunits will directly crash. They are cancelled from the server side, you may want to remove possibly remaining workunits of this type from your machines before crashing. five3_22l_folding (and higher) workunits are correctly working. Mar 3, 2007 QMC@HOME is one year old and celebrates it's birthday with the QMC@HOME birthday competitons! Mar 2, 2007 A solution for ongoing LINUX-client problems since the release of the new Amolqc-preRC1 application version can be found here. Many thanks to our UotD Trog Dog! Mar 1, 2007 A radio program on QMC@HOME aired on February 22th as part of Leonardo on WDR5. Feb 8, 2007 A short note on QMC@HOME appeared in the 'Nachrichten in der Chemie', a newspaper of the society of german chemists GDCh. Jan 25, 2007 A new application version and entirely new workunits are out now! Find out more here and here. Dec 22, 2006 The latest project news and a sentence on credit can be found here. Merry Christmas and a happy new year! Dec 7, 2006 BOINC's new Online Help system lets you get help from volunteers by talking with them using Skype. Volunteers speak several languages. Nov 17, 2006 From 5:00 AM to 4:00 PM the project server was unreachable due to technical reasons. Nov 7, 2006 Vote now for the QMC@HOME screensaver! Oct 30, 2006 Problems with the server network connection may occure on Thursday (2 Nov) between 12:00 and 18:00 due to maintenance activities in our institute. Oct 27, 2006 A new workunit series is out now! See here for more information. Oct 27, 2006 A certificate of computation is available here (log-in required). Oct 12, 2006 A radio program on QMC@HOME aired on September 13th as part of the Westzeit on WDR5. Another radio program about QMC@HOME will air in the next weeks at Leonardo on WDR5. Oct 9, 2006 The 2nd Annual Pangalactic BOINC Workshop was held in Geneva on 20-21 September. You can download the QMC@HOME presentation here. More information on the workshop can be found on the official boinc pages, here and here. Sep 13, 2006 Information on the state of the project can be found here. Aug 22, 2006 During the next two weeks only limited support is available. More... August 16, 2006 We had a problem with some workunits, you can find more information here. The problem is fixed, we apologize for the trouble caused. August 10, 2006 Thanks to Gunnar Kaestle, a translated version of the WAZ article is available. August 4, 2006 Yesterday the WAZ (one of the biggest german newspapers) published an article on QMC@HOME. (Volunteers for the translation of the newspaper articles to english are very welcome to help us out). July 17, 2006 Please fill out the BOINC user survey. Your responses will help us improve QMC@HOME. July 13, 2006 QMC@HOME delivers now approx. 2 TF computing power. We are starting to work on a scientific publication of the first results. Meanwhile the german newspaper 'Welt Kompakt' published an article about QMC@HOME. June 9, 2006 Not only a few workunits were broken, there was a broken linux application version (Linux 5.06), the error should be fixed now (Linux 5.07) - see here for more information. June 8, 2006 After two weeks of bugfixing and optimization our graphics application runs stable on most machines now, unfortunately we had some bad linux workunits out - see here for more information. May 23, 2006 Our project has reached beta test phase. Check out our brand new screensaver! May 22, 2006 Wow! amd.borg has outrun our workgroup in terms of total credit! amd.borg and his TeAm AnandTech are now on top of four of our six top lists! Congratulations! April 28, 2006 Bad News: Unfortunately we will not be able to meet our beta deadline. (Due to ongoing problems with our windows screensaver.) We hopefully will reach beta stage within the next week. April 7, 2006 Beta phase will be reached within the next 3 weeks: The screensaver is nearly ready and first tests with an improved calculation algorithm were also successful. April, 2006 New workunits are out now! After calculations on adenine/thymine DNA base pairs we continue with cytosine/guanine DNA base pairs. March 10, 2006 1400 Users and over 2000 Hosts in one week: Thanks to all participants for joining our project! As a first reaction to a lot of helpful and interesting feedback, we included several new links, a new webpage projectinfos.php (with additional information on project details), and open up our message boards today. March 3, 2006 First project: DNA base pairs March, 2006 Quanten Monte Carlo at Home public release. February, 2006 Quanten Monte Carlo at Home has reached alpha test phase. January, 2006 Quanten Monte Carlo at Home spreads throughout the Organic Chemistry Institute. December, 2005 Quanten Monte Carlo at Home has reached prealpha test phase.